Unless you stand up for yourself you are forever going to be looking for protection from someone else, which in the real world is completely unrealistic. Being passive is just as bad as being aggressive.
The only justice in the world is the justice we make for ourselves. No one else can do that for you.
you're not going to find a gig router, but switches and hubs are pretty common these days. All the usually suspects www.pricewatch.com wwww.newegg.com etc etc. Most are under $50 US.
Nic cards and motherboards with built in gig land are also quite common and reasonably priced.
"Suicide by cops" that's a new one to me (Anything you see in the movies almost never happens). In the US it's usually "idiot dies in hail of bullets while commiting a crime and hopped up on drugs." Most suicide types who die by the gun usually take care of business on their own.
As far as wielding machetes we only do that on "machete day" the 23 of April.
Kidding aside I stand corrected on this one, the idiots at work gave me bum information when I got here and the inbrief on local regulations was also inaccurate. They were telling us carrying all knives was banded. Anything under 3" is legal, though 3" barely qualifies as a knife in my book. I like my 5" rescue Spiderco, but it's set up for cutting clothes and seat belts for paramedic and rescue work, rather than sticking people in the soft spots to steal their wallets.
I stand corrected. The beer buddy lawyers (aka the yahoos I work with) don't have their facts straight. Now that I poke around a bit more online I see what you are talking about.
Suffolk is very nice so far. I'm enjoying scaring the locals with my truck and my dyslexic (right side bad, left side good) American driving skills. Luckily everything is nice and close together so I don't endanger the public for more than 10-15min at a time, and it doesn't hurt that all the local pubs are within a few minute walk from my door.
My connection from the computer to the living room to the one in my room over wireless.
12mbps-54mps
(When the nieghboors craps is not interfering with it and my roommate stops setting the cordless phone down right next to the router on the entertainment center.)
The speed between the other two wired computers in the house.
1000mbps
Think that's unimportant, then you've never tried moving large amounts of files around or streaming movies while multiple wireless conections are active or being interefered with.
For easy small stuff, wireless is wonderful, for anything else it is overrated.
They are a consequence of getting to live free. Just because people die - does not mean you give up your life and your freedoms.
So what happened to all your firearms, privacy (video monitoring), and pocket knives then? Couple people get hurt and suddenly you all roll over on your back as easily and enthusiastically as the family pet.
I don't mean to be mean the British are some of the nicest people I've ever met, I've been living in Suffolk for about a month and a half now, but it seems to me any back bone left over from the Blitz departed the scene years ago. There are posters and giant metal collection bins here and there. They are scaring people to turn in their cooking knives because they might be used in a crime someday.
I think you are confusing spirit with apathy, switch Brit with Eloi and Terrorist with Morlock and then it makes more sense.
Make them available and people will come up with a use for them.
You are very correct that more than 1x is overkill, but to go along with what another posted it would be nice to be able to plunk down any card in any slot in order to get around issues of space. Whether it be for cable reach, slot blockage, or cooling arrangments.
"What a dumb idea, you don't need a dedicated physx card to large scale physics in future gaming, our video cards can handle it, you just sorta need.....3 of them.
Cool in concept, but for some odd reason I doubt they really want you to hang onto your older cards, more like a forced upgrade path to the newer ones.
The plus side to all of this if they make a successful push to move physx to a spare video card maybe we can see a more rapid transition to 8x and 16x slots on motherboards, instead of farting around with a bunch of PCI and 1x 2x 4x slots.
Actually I think that is their point. The pro-business politicians on one side and the eco-freaks on the other each with their own "experts" with the actually science being not some where in the middle, but on the other side of town.
The scientists want the science to be the validator, not data being warped or cherry picked to support a politcal bent.
This is more proof in my mind that ALL the problems in todays society are not do to the access to chemicals or drugs or guns but the right (privilege) to breed. There would be no need for lawsuits or restrictive laws on 98% of these things if dumbasses were not allowed to have children.
"I'm sorry sir but this is the third time you've managed to star on "Cops", place your testicles on the ground and back up slowly with your hands in the air."
The problem with video games is they are excellent "success simulators". That feeling of self worth, even if artificial, is very satisfying. Throw in another condition such as OCD and you end up with people selfdestructing online.
Maybe he is a fraud or at least a good fund raiser. The article I had read a few years ago talked about licensing deals that came from the engines, turbines, and exhaust systems he developed. I haven't kept up with it so maybe it was all smoke and mirrors.
You are correct and those are all obvious uses for c-nanotubes.
What most people seem to fail to grasp is that even though we may never be able to build a space elevator or need to if another advancement comes along, the the study of a seemingly near impossible task is what generates such advancements in the first place.
If you look at most of these "shoot the moon" projects they rarely ever make money off of the finished product, but off all the side uses for advancements found along the way. Take a look at the background history of the Moller flying car (The red one always on Popular Science's cover). The guy developing it has made a killing off of licensing tech that he created for the car. The project is considered a spectacular success even though he may never actually deliver a working flying car.
Gattaca is not a bad thing. If ever there were something in health care the gov't should be providing for free it is this. If everyone is born healthy, with a high resistance to disease, stable body chemistry, and a tendency towards a long active life this would not be a bad thing.
You are right though, genes only create the starting point and set the absolute limits, environment and life experience paint the rest of the picture.
Wow everyone is shooting that concept down pretty fast without even giving it much thought. I work in aircraft developement and find the whole concept interesting. This would be very usefull for some things, maybe not for flight controls or navigation equipment, but I can think of quite a few things that could be put to great use.
We modify our test aircraft with alot of SI equipment for data collection. Modding a test bed with all the extra power and data lines takes most of a year to put in and eventually to remove. A wireless system would cut down on the time needed to get from the mod to the test phase.
Any aircraft that has multiple rolls could benefit from going wireless.
I've been getting similar results. Calling land or cell lines has a lower quality. Talking directly accross the network to someone is on par with any POTS phone service I've ever used. Even when running skype on a wireless connection through my PDA.
Back in my day you just called the fire/police/ambulance directly. It still works just fine, and in some cases works better than 911.
I've been forced to do just that here since the 911 operator for my area is located in a town 45 minutes away and had absolutely no idea where I was talking about when I called in a brush fire that was starting up.
Considering that region wide call centers for 911 are becoming the norm rather than the exception, it rarely goes to the local emergency service anymore, you might be alot better off taking the 5 minutes to look up the local numbers, instead of getting bounced around for 5-10 minutes till they finally connect you with the right person.
Because they charge heavy fees for overseas calls, and they charge by the text message.
I'm personally pretty much done with land lines and in some cases cell service. Currently I'm using a HP 2475 PDA with a BT headset and skype lite as a cell phone replacement, so far so good.
It doesn't cost me a thing to talk to anyone anywhere on the network. (THe World)
$76 ($38 each for 1 local US & UK phone number) a year for unlimited incoming calls, so familiy, friends, and work can get a hold of me with a regular phone.
Unlimited IM, voicemail, and filestransfers.Br>
Finally its all of 1.5 cents (US) a minute to any POTS phone located in most of the 1st world nations on planet Earth. I've used all of $5 worth of minutes since December 2005
Sure I have to find a hotspot when I'm not at home or at a friend's but that is not all that difficult to do 90% of the time.
I know this solution is not for everyone, but it's exactly how cell phones should already be working. Companies don't want to give up the premiums we've been paying for decades even though the service has dropped to pennies on the dollar in costs for them and they certainly don't want content and services to be free from 3rd parties when they can charge you a few dollars for each ring tone and small app.
I hope you find this usefull. Take a look at the Nvidia 7800 series. I have the 7800GS and it does support aceleration on both monitors at the same time.
Games or programs that will run in a windowed mode work the best, both in windowed and full screen mode. If they wont then they probably wont play nice. Currently I watch a DVD on one while playing a game on the other. It is hot swapable, in other words you can drag you program from one monitor to the other on the fly without it crashing. You do need to have a dual-core/multi-CPU system for this to work in addition to the card, else you won't have the resources to properly multi-task.
I'm not a loyal fan to either ATI or Nvidia, I swap companies depending on the current price point and technology level. Dual monitor acceleration and wide screen support won Nvidia my money this time around.
My rig
Dell 24" wide screen LCD
Viewsonic 17" LCD
Nvidia Gigabyte 7800GS 256mb
AMD x2 3800 dual core
Kingston 2gb pc3200
Creative XFi sound card
ASROCK dual APG/PCI-express mb
Zalman reserator water cooling system
Western Digital x2 74gb 10000rpm Raptor Raid 0
Maxtor 250gb SATA 2
I already have a dual core system, sorry it's already being used up, nothing left over for multi-thread gaming.
The things is now that I can, I find myself wildly multitasking. I'll be playing a game, talking on skype with others in the game, have defender and anti virus doing it's thing, maybe watching a movie on my second monitor.
There is a great deal of work being done to get multi-core systems to behave like different things( Cell-proc), but when it comes down to it I'd rather have 4 specialized cpus (cpu, ppu, gpu, spu) than a 4 core general cpu. The specialized rig is going to spank the pants off the general one every time.
Who is an IT proffession? And I make crap compared to most people in the really real world. Unless of course you believe that guy over on www.forsakeourtroops.com
Common this is/. mom's basement comments are the bread and butter around here. So I hope you take it as a jest, not as a personal attack..
Actually I agree $300 is too much to spend on a video card. I did pay $280 for my last one, but I was looking for a particular capability, namely the ability to accelerate graphics/video on both outputs (dual games/movies on dual monitors)at the same time, that and that they had slapped a $40 heat sink on it that I needed to buy anyway for my 9800pro whose fan had died, along with a $35 rebate that believe it or not actually made it too me.
Getting back on subject. Other than those few bleeding edge games that come out every year, much gaming goodness can be had from cards in the $100-150 price range, normally this where I buy. You just upgrade a little more often say once every year. While it ends up being similar in price to the $300 every two years, you end up with spares to build up a second and third machine within a couple of years that are still quite useable so that everyone in the family can have one.
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The only justice in the world is the justice we make for ourselves. No one else can do that for you.
Nic cards and motherboards with built in gig land are also quite common and reasonably priced.
As far as wielding machetes we only do that on "machete day" the 23 of April.
Kidding aside I stand corrected on this one, the idiots at work gave me bum information when I got here and the inbrief on local regulations was also inaccurate. They were telling us carrying all knives was banded. Anything under 3" is legal, though 3" barely qualifies as a knife in my book. I like my 5" rescue Spiderco, but it's set up for cutting clothes and seat belts for paramedic and rescue work, rather than sticking people in the soft spots to steal their wallets.
Suffolk is very nice so far. I'm enjoying scaring the locals with my truck and my dyslexic (right side bad, left side good) American driving skills. Luckily everything is nice and close together so I don't endanger the public for more than 10-15min at a time, and it doesn't hurt that all the local pubs are within a few minute walk from my door.
12mbps-54mps
(When the nieghboors craps is not interfering with it and my roommate stops setting the cordless phone down right next to the router on the entertainment center.) The speed between the other two wired computers in the house.
1000mbps
Think that's unimportant, then you've never tried moving large amounts of files around or streaming movies while multiple wireless conections are active or being interefered with.
For easy small stuff, wireless is wonderful, for anything else it is overrated.
So what happened to all your firearms, privacy (video monitoring), and pocket knives then? Couple people get hurt and suddenly you all roll over on your back as easily and enthusiastically as the family pet.
I don't mean to be mean the British are some of the nicest people I've ever met, I've been living in Suffolk for about a month and a half now, but it seems to me any back bone left over from the Blitz departed the scene years ago. There are posters and giant metal collection bins here and there. They are scaring people to turn in their cooking knives because they might be used in a crime someday.
I think you are confusing spirit with apathy, switch Brit with Eloi and Terrorist with Morlock and then it makes more sense.
"Build it and they will come."
Make them available and people will come up with a use for them.
You are very correct that more than 1x is overkill, but to go along with what another posted it would be nice to be able to plunk down any card in any slot in order to get around issues of space. Whether it be for cable reach, slot blockage, or cooling arrangments.
"What a dumb idea, you don't need a dedicated physx card to large scale physics in future gaming, our video cards can handle it, you just sorta need.....3 of them.
Cool in concept, but for some odd reason I doubt they really want you to hang onto your older cards, more like a forced upgrade path to the newer ones.
The plus side to all of this if they make a successful push to move physx to a spare video card maybe we can see a more rapid transition to 8x and 16x slots on motherboards, instead of farting around with a bunch of PCI and 1x 2x 4x slots.
Go fuck your mother.
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Jeff
This is about as fair they can make it. Label it as crippleware so we can all know what not to buy.
The scientists want the science to be the validator, not data being warped or cherry picked to support a politcal bent.
This isn't a need, it's a want, and I really WANT a 4x4.
"I'm sorry sir but this is the third time you've managed to star on "Cops", place your testicles on the ground and back up slowly with your hands in the air."
The problem with video games is they are excellent "success simulators". That feeling of self worth, even if artificial, is very satisfying. Throw in another condition such as OCD and you end up with people selfdestructing online.
Maybe he is a fraud or at least a good fund raiser. The article I had read a few years ago talked about licensing deals that came from the engines, turbines, and exhaust systems he developed. I haven't kept up with it so maybe it was all smoke and mirrors.
What most people seem to fail to grasp is that even though we may never be able to build a space elevator or need to if another advancement comes along, the the study of a seemingly near impossible task is what generates such advancements in the first place.
If you look at most of these "shoot the moon" projects they rarely ever make money off of the finished product, but off all the side uses for advancements found along the way. Take a look at the background history of the Moller flying car (The red one always on Popular Science's cover). The guy developing it has made a killing off of licensing tech that he created for the car. The project is considered a spectacular success even though he may never actually deliver a working flying car.
Better yet download the client and throw some spare CPU cycles into the mix.
You are right though, genes only create the starting point and set the absolute limits, environment and life experience paint the rest of the picture.
We modify our test aircraft with alot of SI equipment for data collection. Modding a test bed with all the extra power and data lines takes most of a year to put in and eventually to remove. A wireless system would cut down on the time needed to get from the mod to the test phase.
Any aircraft that has multiple rolls could benefit from going wireless.
I've been getting similar results. Calling land or cell lines has a lower quality. Talking directly accross the network to someone is on par with any POTS phone service I've ever used. Even when running skype on a wireless connection through my PDA.
I've been forced to do just that here since the 911 operator for my area is located in a town 45 minutes away and had absolutely no idea where I was talking about when I called in a brush fire that was starting up.
Considering that region wide call centers for 911 are becoming the norm rather than the exception, it rarely goes to the local emergency service anymore, you might be alot better off taking the 5 minutes to look up the local numbers, instead of getting bounced around for 5-10 minutes till they finally connect you with the right person.
I'm personally pretty much done with land lines and in some cases cell service. Currently I'm using a HP 2475 PDA with a BT headset and skype lite as a cell phone replacement, so far so good.
It doesn't cost me a thing to talk to anyone anywhere on the network. (THe World)
$76 ($38 each for 1 local US & UK phone number) a year for unlimited incoming calls, so familiy, friends, and work can get a hold of me with a regular phone.
Unlimited IM, voicemail, and filestransfers.Br> Finally its all of 1.5 cents (US) a minute to any POTS phone located in most of the 1st world nations on planet Earth. I've used all of $5 worth of minutes since December 2005
Sure I have to find a hotspot when I'm not at home or at a friend's but that is not all that difficult to do 90% of the time.
I know this solution is not for everyone, but it's exactly how cell phones should already be working. Companies don't want to give up the premiums we've been paying for decades even though the service has dropped to pennies on the dollar in costs for them and they certainly don't want content and services to be free from 3rd parties when they can charge you a few dollars for each ring tone and small app.
Games or programs that will run in a windowed mode work the best, both in windowed and full screen mode. If they wont then they probably wont play nice. Currently I watch a DVD on one while playing a game on the other. It is hot swapable, in other words you can drag you program from one monitor to the other on the fly without it crashing. You do need to have a dual-core/multi-CPU system for this to work in addition to the card, else you won't have the resources to properly multi-task.
I'm not a loyal fan to either ATI or Nvidia, I swap companies depending on the current price point and technology level. Dual monitor acceleration and wide screen support won Nvidia my money this time around.
My rig Dell 24" wide screen LCD Viewsonic 17" LCD Nvidia Gigabyte 7800GS 256mb AMD x2 3800 dual core Kingston 2gb pc3200 Creative XFi sound card ASROCK dual APG/PCI-express mb Zalman reserator water cooling system Western Digital x2 74gb 10000rpm Raptor Raid 0 Maxtor 250gb SATA 2
The things is now that I can, I find myself wildly multitasking. I'll be playing a game, talking on skype with others in the game, have defender and anti virus doing it's thing, maybe watching a movie on my second monitor.
There is a great deal of work being done to get multi-core systems to behave like different things( Cell-proc), but when it comes down to it I'd rather have 4 specialized cpus (cpu, ppu, gpu, spu) than a 4 core general cpu. The specialized rig is going to spank the pants off the general one every time.
Common this is /. mom's basement comments are the bread and butter around here. So I hope you take it as a jest, not as a personal attack..
Actually I agree $300 is too much to spend on a video card. I did pay $280 for my last one, but I was looking for a particular capability, namely the ability to accelerate graphics/video on both outputs (dual games/movies on dual monitors)at the same time, that and that they had slapped a $40 heat sink on it that I needed to buy anyway for my 9800pro whose fan had died, along with a $35 rebate that believe it or not actually made it too me.
Getting back on subject. Other than those few bleeding edge games that come out every year, much gaming goodness can be had from cards in the $100-150 price range, normally this where I buy. You just upgrade a little more often say once every year. While it ends up being similar in price to the $300 every two years, you end up with spares to build up a second and third machine within a couple of years that are still quite useable so that everyone in the family can have one.